It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Matthew
GospelsFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalms
PoetryThey were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms
PoetryNow Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 Kings
HistoryThese are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude
General EpistlesAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
Judges
History / SamuelLet not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Job
WisdomAnd when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBlessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Luke
GospelsRemembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahTrouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesWho hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Numbers
LawAnd they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.